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Only l-cent stamps received as payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THrJ HUB PL'BLISHIN'a COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Rtate of NfOnuka, Douglas County, si : C. C. Rosewater. secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aye that the actual nu"tr of full and rtimplcie nntes of Tne Dally. Morning, Evening and Siindfiv Bee printed during th month of October, 19ns, was as fol lows: : .t'i.ino i 3O.TO0J x ao.ofto 4 ni.rtao 1 31,230 17 30,.10 If, 30.H30 19 30.nf 10 3O.W20 n st. bio 22 2D.HBO U HO,T0 24 30,MM J 81, tM) 25 .TO.HHI) 27 30. l 10 2J 31.HOO f9 HO, TOO SO 31,000 Jl 30.IMM) 31,r20 32,41 :U).rrw 31,030 31,100 31,100 ir). . 1.. I! 3O.T10 IS. It. 30,820 .to.ir.it ao.T'to U02.H4O Less unsold copies lO.ttBl Net total snlcs B.12.240 Pally uvcraga ao.TIT C. C. ROSE WATER, Secretary. Subscribed In rny presence and sworn to before me tills 31st day of October. 1906. (Seal) M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public WHE OCT OF TOWJS. labacrlbers lea Tins; the city tern porarlly aboeld have That Ilea mailed to them. It la better than a dally letter from home. Ad dress will bo vbaagrd aa oftea as reqeested. Cotvaus nud Flllpiuos may now enter a race to net which will first cam the riifht of Hflf-g-overnineiit. In accepting the title of Haakou VII, t'uiule of Donmark apparently believes there lit more In the game thau in the name of king. Prince Louis need have had no feur of dynamiters, for the American variety of dynamiter does not send advance notices of his coming. The third Indictment of Senator Bur ton will be "the charm" for either the prosecutiou or the defense, an the statute of limitations will soou step in. With a larger production of gold year by year the United States la getting still further away from the agitation for the free coinage of silver at any ratio. With Mormons moving to Mexico the Vnlted States may yet have a precedent for the Reed Smoot case provided the senate acta with its usual caution and delay. " " ' . In the. light of their work in Man churia, one wonders why the Russian radicals are making auch strenuous ef forts, to enlist the co-operation of Rns Ian soldiers and sailors. South Omaha's municipal election and Omaha's municipal primaries cou.ti on one and the same day. That threat- . ens to put a damper on the movement of population between the two cities. The eyes of the world are on the (emstro Congress at Moscow. Will It follow the precedent established by the continental congress at Philadelphia or that Inaugurated by the revolutionists at Paris The: officer of the Hilda who made a mUtaka In the lights off the coast of Prance doea not live to explain how It happened; but it la safe to say changes j will bo inade In the lights so as to make another guch 'accident Impossible. With a delegate from u farmers' soci ety addressing the' American f'edM'atiou of LnlHr the tiui may tune when tlie farm laborer will strike against hurry ing to get the evening "chores" done in time lit light the fire for lu-enkfast. If the big. cattle barons who have lawlessly -fenced In hundreds of thou-! sands, of '.acres of the pnbllc domain get off with fJKHi flue in a pica of guilty, .the llttlt; land fencers may ex-' pecf to get off with a tine of about 90 ccuts, III I It uow begirt to dawn upon ambi tious South Omaha statesmen that they have made a great blunder In arraying themselves against annexation. Under a separate government South Omaha couucllinen are obliged to serve at hard latxr for a paltry &V0 a month, while Omaha rouncilmeii are in clover up to thttlr necks with $1,500 a year and per qulsitea. Snout rage. The Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice In trior bail company is said to bare shown nioro Signs of life during the past few I'loutli than at any time during previous very., but that does uot signify ui.y cry materia) progress iu the construc l ;tl of the road. Snails sometimes five itt lgn of life, but they cannot be de pendnil npon to travel thirty miles an lM.Hr .unlees they are perched on the back end of au automobile. KRoniyn A FAVoii There I" every iliilintioii that (lie polity of railway rnte regulation Is growing In ptihlic favor. Men of prom inence ami Influence iu railroad circles are licginnlng; to ee the wisdom and expediency of supporting the iionition of Irca(lent Knoscvelt. Due of these Is Mr. Mellon, president of the New York, New I In ven & Hartford, who called upon Mr. Roosevelt last week. Mr. Mel len believe that It Is good policy on the part of the railroads to acquiesce in the enactment of reasonable legislation. He Is reported to have said In an Interview that the only action he is going to take la to support the president. There are other railroad men of large Influence who are In the game position. They have become convinced that the policy urged by Mr. Iloosevelt will re sult In benefit rather than disadvantage to the corporations of which they are the heads and that It is wiser to yield to the overwhelming public demand for the proposed regulation than to invite more radical legislation. They see that If . what President Roosevelt recom mends Is denied the eventual outcome, as he has pointed out, will be the adop tion of a policy which would anbject the railroad to much grea'er super. Vision and regulation than is now con templated. The more judicious of rail road managers are hcglnniug to realize thut the position of the president !s really conservative and that it means only what Is absolutely fair and Just and equitable. They are coming to vm dctstand that It docs not contemplate any curtailment of tin proper rights and privileges of the railroads, that it is not Intended to deprive- them of any legitimate function or place them under any arbitrary or desiotic authority. Its purpose Is simply and wholly to require them to comply with the law and to deal fairly and Justly toward the public in all respects and under all circumstances. The present Indications are altogether favorable to the success of President Hoosevelt's policy. It Is said that some of the New England senators who have hitherto leen opposed to railway rate legislation, as recommended by Mr. Roosevelt, have decided to support the president. It is very probable that others from that section will decide to do so when the question comes before congress. The present aspect of the sit uation appears to warrant the predic tion that the rate legislation recom mended by the president will be enacted. THE MOST PROSPEROUS COVXTltltS. Representative William Alden Smith of Michigan, who during the past sum mer visited Europe and Investigated economic conditions there, says that he came back a stronger protectionist than ever. His observations impressed blm with the fact that the protective tariff countries are the most prosperous. There is abundant evidence In support of this view. It is an indisputable fact that Germany and France, for example, are more prosperous than free trade Eng land, where at this time hundreds of thousands of people In Loudon and other cities are ont of employment and more or less dependent upon charity. Very recently Mr. Chamberlain, the champion of fiscal reform, has urged this fact In support of the policy ho advocates, and last week the National Union of Conser vative associations, lu n meeting at New castle, adopted a resolution In favor of fiscal reforms based on the preferential ! treatment of trade between the mother-! v,'v' nn Inquiry Into the feasibility of j iem by the extremely primitive and some land and the colonies. It was a distinct i tlle undertaking and the Inducement what farcical method of arresting would-be enunciation in favor of a policy of pro tection. Those who are conversant with con ditional abroad will not 1h surprised at the view expressed by the Michigan congressman and It is astonishing that there should be any one In this country, knowing how greatly the ladlcy of pro tection has promoted our Industrial progress and prosperity, to seriously pro pose abandonment of thut policy The object lesson of idleness and Impover ishment In the United Kingdom, with Its flee trade, should make an impression upon tho Aruericau people, who have all the work they Bre willing to do and are enjoying, as a whole, unprecedented prosperity. , Tff HUUSt COMMlTTtKS- It appears that Speuker Cannon, whoae m-electlon la of course assured and who !s said to be already at work arranging the committees of the next luusc of , represcutaiives, Is. likely to find bla task in this respect somewhat perplexing. The chairmanship of the committee on appropriation is a matter of commanding - importance, because upoa that committee will devolve the duty of finding where a reduction iu public expenditures can practically be effected. Mr. Cannon is In favos of economy and it is expected that he will apioint on that committee men lu ac cord with his vlows. Next in import ance is the Ways and means committee, which has charge of all matters relating to revenue. The chairman of this com mittee In the las, house was Representa tive Payne of New York, who it Is said is not very highly regarded by the speaker as a floor leader. While a very earnest supporter of the protective policy, Mr. Payne is not a particularly strong debate and according to report Mr. Cannon wants a man at the head of this committee who will be able to de fend the republican tariff position against any democratic assault that may be made upon It, and the expectation Is that the democrats, under the leadership of their a blent man in the house, John Sharp William, will avail themselves of every opportunity to attack the re publican tariff policy. Aa now indicated, the choice for chair man of the appropriations committee will prottably lie Mr. Tawney of Minne sota, and for chairman of the ways ami means committee Mr. Imlxdl of Penn sylvania. Both are experienced mcm-l-rs and In all respects qualified to head the committees for which they are being talked of, while they are known to be in hearty accord with the views of Mr. Cannon respecting appropriations and the tariff. Their appointment to the chairmanships of the leading committees is regarded as highly probable. THE AC XT STEP FORWARD The year 190 has been an epoch mak ing year for Omaha. No other western city has made more prodigious strides as a mercantile distributing center, and no city of equal population can match its building record. The establishment of a grain exchange, followed by the erection of half a dozen grain elevators, has made Omaha the third largest grain market west of the Mississippi, as it already had been the third meat pack ing city in America. The marvelous progress Omaha has made within the past year and the pros pective expansion of Its tributary trade territory only makes cheaper power and especially cheaper fuel more imperative. Inland cities cannot depend wholly for their growth and prosperity upon com merce. Manufactures, giving perma nent employment to skilled and un skilled labor, are the backbone of all great cities, especially those situated in the heart of the continent. Chicago, with all its advantages as the emporium of the natural products of the region that supplies the world with breadstuffs. could not have grown to Its present proportions, or even half of Its present population, were It not for the location of the great mills and fac tories within Its Industrial radius. Chi cago never could have been a great man. ufacturing center were It not for it ability to seeure cheap fuel and cheap power. The same Is true of St Louis and Kansas City. The greatest factor for the upbuilding of Kansas City In the near future is its almost Inexhausti ble supply of petroleum and natural gas from the Kansas and Oklahoma oil fields. Pipe lines leading to these fields have been completed but recently, and Kan sas City at this moment is agitating for 25-cent natural gas for illuminating and heating purposes. The substitution of fuel oil and fuel gas as a generator of power in place of coal will place Kan ' sas City on almost an equal footing with Pittsburg, Cleveland, Indianapolis and other manufacturing centers, and blaze the way for a very material in crease In the number of Its mills and factories, which already outnumber and overlap those of Omaha. To keep up with its southern rival Omaha must In the near future secure pipe line to the Wyoming oil fields, gas fields of Kansas and the oil fields Wyoming, which prospectively will exceed those of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The estimated cost of a six-inch pipe line from Omaha to a point In Kansas that would tap the line now leading into Kansas City would cost not exceeding $:.KH),(HKI. While Omaha capitalists may not be In position to venture on such an enterprise Omaha and Douglas county could well afford to extend lib eral aid to It. The same would le true regarding a pipe line to the Wyoming oil fields, which, of course, would lnvotve a very much larger outlay than a line to Kan- T"0 preliminary steps would in which would have to Ik? held out to . .. . .ii, . I'lil'liiinnin n in miuiu ur llini.meil ) embark In the undertaking. Insurance experts of half a dozen states who have for some months past loen quartered In luxurious apartments of palatial hotels In the American metro polls, while conducting an Investigation into the management and condition of I tne nl Insurance companies, have given It ont that they will be through their laborious and delicate task within a few weeks; they also assure us that the expenses attending this expert In quisition is borne by the Insurance com panies and not by the respective states from which they hall. This is poor comfort to the policy holders of the companies that have been subjected to this ieriodlc holdup at the expense of their patrons. The farcical character of these Junketing inquisitions Is forcibly shown by the fact that the state experts have never reached down deep enough to uncover any of the scandalous prac tices that have for years jwrmeated the system, lu view of the fact that the New York State Insurance department and the New York legislative Invesligat - lng committee are making a very search lllg ana very emcient inquiry into the management of the big life Insurance companies, the Insurance Junket of 11 i5 Is manifestly au inexcusable exhibition of legalized graft. The county board is wrestling with the problem of supplying the Inmates of the county Infirmary with blankets for the winter, without Increasing the enormous overlap that is staring them in the face. The solution of this prob lem is not as difficult as It appears to be. The county is now paying 45 cents a day for feeding prisoners in the county Jail, while the city U paying only Id cents per day. In view of this con trast, a reduction from 45 to 'J5 ceut a day would certainly not be unreason able. By making this reduction the county would effect a saving of from $10 to $15 per day, or at least $.'Hs a mouth. If She board will act promptly It cau aave the price of the blankets within teu days and reduce the overlap by from $150 to $ltsj before the end of the prest-nt year In this single item of retrenchment. But there are other places where the county board can ef feet a material aarlng before the end of the year without waiting for the aid or consent of the new ineiii1s-r of the incoming ImmiiI. City experts, ways the Lincoln Journal, are now investigating the wftter pumping problem, and the public may hear a great deal about economy In purchasing and economy In iera tion, while the watch dogs of the treas ury may 1 more than usual In evi dence. That Is precisely the condition In Omaha, except that the watch dogs are attached to the pumping station by an endless chain that draws money out of the city treasury and empties It Into the pockets of the appraisers, special attorneys and the water commissioners. Economy Is an old watchword with watch dogs. Captain Palmeris not the only post master who has !cen asked by the Post offlce department to explain the recent marked Increase in postofflce receipts. The postmaster of Kansas City has re ceived a similar requisition from As sistant Postmaster General Madden, and his reply will le very much on the same lines as those of Captain Palmer, that the marked Increase in postofflce re ceipts is merely the Index of the phenomenal Increase of commercial activity in their respective cities. With the gradual approach of the spring election the mountebanks and professional . frauds who opposed the municipal ownership of a public light ing plant last year may be depended upon to reappear as champions of munic ipal ownership of every public utility that is out of reach. British and American residents of Odessa threaten to leave that place in a body should another reign of violence occur. This is probably notice to the business interests of the community that the Chinese are not the only people who pan start an International boycott. "Go 'Way. "oany-" Philadelphia Record. The Isle of Plnea Is a nice little insular property, but Uncle Sam has over 1.400 more Islands now on his hands than he can satisfactorily manage. : Ohio Cornea i p Smiling. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ohio, after all, elected the entire repub lican state ticket except governor, and the 1 .... u t 1 1 1 r. im nnhltnnn rvn tnlnt tiiil- iot. The democratic shouting over Ohio must be restricted to one candidate pitted against an opponent who was scratched by 80,000 republicans. Inspiration for a Rally. Washington Post. The president Is said to be Interested in ' the movement to prevent the water of ' Niagara falls from being diverted for ' power purposes. The country Is apt to get Sfjuarely behind the president on that prop osition when It learns that much of this dl- verted power Is used for the manufacture. of nreakiast iooas. t'ot It Ont. Baltimore American. It Is high time that hazing. In all its forms, whs abolished. Even when Intended to be harmless there Is always danger that the liaxers. In their excitement, will go to extremes and a tragedy may be the result. The lives already sacrificed since the college year began should teach the lesson that the practice Is too dangerous to be continued. Reasoning; nltli the Depressed. Baltimore-American. Mayor Tom JohnRon wants an antl-sul-citle bureau appointed, whose) task will be to dissuade men from the worries that drive men to take their own lives and by conducting an educational crusade against self-slaughter. New York treats the prob I ulc,aM ana i",lun ,n'm ,n I eniiy ior noi miiKing ururr ju ui n FOOT HAM. KISDKKS3. Chancellor Andrews' Trlbnte to the tientleneaa of the Game. Pittsburg Dispatch. The Nebraska college prestdent who ex presses his ndmlratlon for foot ball only exercises his right as a cltixen of the re public. But when he points to the game as breeding kindness and restraint and de clares It a schooling In alertness, courage, self-mastery and motor efficiency second only to army and navy service he leaves In his wake a suspicion that his judgment Is somewhat warped. It Is doubtful whether the most efficient players In the hardest fought foot ball con tests will agree with the learned doctor that the game produce kindness and self- restraint. Even the spectator far from the side lines has little difficulty In discov ering that kindness plays no part In foot ball, while self-restraint Is not provided for In the rules. It Is true that players be come alert and master the secrets of motor efflclency, but that they are necessarily courageous depends in large measure on the construction of the word. No one will deny that the training Is second only to thut of the armyand navy, particularly If this training refers to the service In time of war. There are two sides to the foot ball ques tion, and Its best friends admit that there 1 room for r,,for,n ' ,h Play'na of the f gHiiic. f-vui mere ih nine nope wim tnis reform will come us long as the head of a I great educational Institution openly ex ' presses the be'lef that It promotes kindness and kindred virtues. Perhapa the records do not show any d-aths from foot ball lu his university. SCOTT'S EMULSION is more than a fat food. There is no animal fat that compares with it in nourishing and building up the wasted, emaciated body. That is why chil dren and anaemic girls thrive and grow fat upon it. That is why persons with consumptive tenden cies gain flesh and strength enough to check the progress of the dis ease. SwVii fiUWKg, otvlStn,)Yerk, r a ii. no. i ratf: ami rf.havk. Mf narlni KtIIs ef Discrimination aad Favoritism. The second Installment of Kay Ptannard Bakers Inves'lgatlon of the. rallrond rate problem In the Ivccmber McClure's dr-als with the railroad rebate, showing how dis criminations In tates swells the Income of the already rich at the expense of s niillcr shippers In like business. "Let It be under stood." says Mr. Baker, "that this Is not an attack upon Individual enterprises and In dustry, nor upon large fortunes, but an at tack upon that piggish Individualism which succeeds by taklr.g more than its share of the public highway, which does not observe the common decencies of the gentlemen In the street, but comes to Its fortune by crowding other men Into the gutter. For that Is what the rebate Is. It Is the mark of commercial boorlshness." ' The writer goes Into the rebate question with great detail, citing specific Instances to illustrat the evil, and the reasons for It. In part he says: The common method of rebating In past years was for the railroad com:any to charge the favored shipper the full freight on his goods, then at stated periods send him a check to the full amount of the agreed rebate. That was one way crude and easily discovered. Another way was and is to pay the favored shipper a so-called com mission on his business, as though he were an agent of the company. Still 'an other way Is to pay a real traffic agent, say at Milwaukee, a large commsslon or a large salary, which he divides with the favored shipper. This method has spread enormously In the past year to the alarm even of the railroads. The Wisconsin In vestigators found Innumerbnle other dev ices, like under-billing and the under-weighing of freight, the allowance to the favored shipper of cartage or switching charges, on the permission to hold cars as storage for coal or lumber for a long time without demurrage, or refunding the demurrage, if charged. The figures show that the St. Taul rail road paid only about half the amount of rebates In 1903 as the Northwestern rail road; it may he concluded that the St. Paul Is therefore the more virtuous. But figures are proverbially deceptive. It was found that sometimes when one railroad frankly paid cash the rival road had another more secret, underhanded way of doing the same thing. In one city there are two equally Important shippers In the Bame business. One of them used one railroad and reclved large rebates; tho other, shipping by the other road, apparently received no icbates. But the Investigators know that the second shipper could not have done business for a month In competition with the first unless this great discrepancy In rebates was somehow realized. I'pon In stituting Inquiries they found that the local agent of the second road was empowered to correcj the way bill and deduct a cer tain percentage from every freight bill presented to the favored shipper and to forward the amount collected as the full payment, taking the necessary credit In the agent's weekly report. By this method no Incriminating evidences of rebates crept Into the books of the St. Paul road. And now the Northwestern railroad has chosen new methods, It Is learning by ex perience. When the Wisconsin Investiga tors began work, the Northwestern railroad stopped paying cash rebates almost en tirely; but Immediately It began to Issue a great many so-called "hektograph tariffs" that Is, rate schedules, not regularly printed, and barely keeping within the fringe of the law. If they even did that. And the effect of the hektograph tarff was to give certain shippers advantages over others exactly what the rebate did. Noth ing could show better the progress from the crude cash rebate to the underhanded device which acocmpllshes the same end. Another device shows how the passenger and freight departments of a railroad work together In giving rebates. It haa long been known that the favored shipper could often get a pass not only for himself, but for his entire family. This Is, of course, a true rebate, for It saves the shipper Just so much money. But It Is more or less public, therefore undesirable. Accordingly, one Wisconsin railroad, among others, has been employing a shrewder device. Cer tain large concerns In Wisconsin who em ploy traveling men, purchase the ordinary passenger mileage book, upon the cover of which, when the mileage Is used, the rail road will refund CO. Btit It was discovered that In the case of certain favored ship pers, when the cover was sent back, the railroad refunded $20 In the ordinary way, and then' afterwards and secretly they re bated the entire original cost of the book or $t'iO. In other words, these favored Wisconsin Industries were able to send out their entire force of traveling men with out paying one oent of railroad fare while their competitors paid full fares. A good many business men of Wisconsin do not know, today, of this insidious and despic able competition which Is undermining their business. This article may give them the first news of It: I asked a prominent railroad official what. In his estimation, was the greatest single obstacle In ridding the country of the rebate evil. He answered promptly "The Industrial traffic manager." When there are favors to be got from a railroad company It takes an expert to get them. Accordingly, It has grown to oe a custom spreading more widely every year for large shippers to employ special men to look after their railroad Interests. An honorable and legitimate place exists for the Industrial traffic manager, t he mere business of making shipments, hilling correctly, seeing that cars are properly loaded, checking up freight rates, choosing the best routes, and so on. Is enormous But out of this legitimate work has sprung the evils of freight rate manipulations The traffic manager's first duty Is ti "work with the roads for better rates" I have met a number of these men as fine and agreeable gentlemen as one would meet in a day's walk. Some of them look at their profession In the curious, clear, lialf-cynlcal way of the American business man whose motto has come to be: "Kvery thing is fair in business: dog eat dog." "Hrown It Co.." says the traffic man ager, "has Its man on the ground working for concessions. If we don't have om nia n, then we go under! If they get re bates, we've got to." That Is the evil circle of logic of the rebate. So the country swarms with these traf fic managers, ami over against them are corresponding swarms of railroad freight agents, of every description. Both are the expensive. cumbersome, and corrupting outgrowth of the present late system. They rent the most expensive offices In the main streets of every Iniixnlant city, they spend lavishly lo get business, and the people, of course, finally pay the bills. We Are All flood Roys Philadelphia Record. Bef r 111 1 spreading like an epidemic. Not onlv are the politicians tumbling over eai h oilier in their efforts to get en the side of the people, but John A. McCall promises lo gel Lobbyist lUiollton buck to this country if he tan. and to return to the company the f.'.'!5.ouu he let Hamil ton have to control legixUtlon with if he lairiot Indue Hamilton to disgorge. Evrlody Is goir.g l be ery good now thai I. eei)lHly who l.a bteu fount JUL It Quiets the Cough This is one reason why Aycr's Cherry Pectoral is so valuable in consumption: it stops the wear and tear of useless coughing. But it does more it con trols the inflammation, quiets the fever, soothes, heals. Ask your doctor about it, then do just as he says. We have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. Ha by tas t. O. Ayer 0., Lewsll, Ms. AIM MaaBlMturers t ATtlt'S HAIR VIGOR Ter tke hair. ATIR't PIVIM Fer ceatttsatlea. A TIB'S SARSAFARIIXA Ver th blood. ATBR'8 AGUE CORE-Fet aularia an its. PERSOV4.I, tlTB. The mikado has gone to the shrine of Ise to tell his ancestors how the war came out. The American who has sued King Kdward for $87S,O0O has not yet decided what to do with the money. Marvin Kent, who has been president of the Kent (O.) National bank since 1855, Is among the oldest bankers In the country, being nearly 90. M. U Garrett and K. W. Preston of Sioux City, la., claim to have patented an Inven tion by which it will be possible to talk around the world. General Wood'a reports on Cuban affairs during his administration of the Island are now on the way to be reduced to pulp and manufactured Into plain paper. Another case of wood pulp. A shooting scrape In the Neapolitan quar ter of Chicago the other day, resulting In one death and two hospital patients, tends to confirm the Impression that this country can on a pinch afford natives of any clime all the comforts of home. Some of the British officers anchored in New York Intimate that the British fleet could easily reduce the city to a heap of ruins. Perhaps. But It would be a differ ent Job to hold it. a fact the man behind the corkscrew can learn by reading up a bit. Albert F. Springsteen, connected with the pension office, Washington, claims to have been the youngest regularly enlisted and mustered soldier in the union army during the civil war. lie enlisted at Indianapolis on October IE, 1R61, at the age of 11 years and 3 months. Dr. Douglas Hyde, president of the Gaelic league, who has been making an effort during the last twelve years to revive the Irish language and literature, has Just ar rived In New York. He is the author of several works In the Gaelic language. He will remain in this country for several months. Chicago has gone divorce mad. More than half a hundred cases of family discord were docketed Saturday, occupying the at tention of six Judges and probably a hun dred lawyers. Nineteen decrees of divorce and one of separate maintenance were granted and the others are under advise ment by the Judges. MACHIXE-MADK COMEDY. Voters Wreck the Plans of Wise Politicians. New York Tribune. Machines are not supposed to be en dowed with emotions. Yet voting ma chines, for Instance, may play conspicuous parts In a humorous comedy. That was certainly the case at the recent election In Jersey City. Mayor Kagan was running for rp-ejection on the republican ticket and he could not succeed without the aid of democratic votes. One of the mayor's bril liant opponents concelvtd the Idea of put ting voting machines In the strong demo cratic wards. Of course, the voters wouldn't know how to split their votes, and In their anxiety to vote for the regu lar ward candidates, they would vote the straight democratic ticket. The theory wa-j simply perfect, and Kagan couldn't possi bly win. Melancholy and cruel as It may Bem, the voters didn't look at this plan In the same light as the designers. They were told all about It before election day and agreed that the schema was a pretty one. "Great Joke." they were told. "Yes, 'tis a great Joke." they agreed. "And by way of carrying It out we'll vote the straight republican ticket to make sure." So It haa come to pass that for the first time Hudson county Is sending to the leg islature a solid republican delegation of twelve members, all carried through by the Joke that prompted demccratlc voters to plump for the whole republican ticket. Browning, King & Co ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAkEKS OF HALF SIZES IN CLOTHING. "In the matter .f style," said Hoau Brummel. "that la beat that beat meet a the Intelligent taate " i Fliteenth and Douglas Sts. Brasaafaamjr tSmal Ureal NEW POIHTKD ri.EAATRlF.s. Knlcker I see they are trying the Eng lish style of foot ball. Boeker Yes; we may soon clasp feet across the sea New York Sun. Hicks If It hadn't been for that fellow Skinner I'd be a hundred dollars richer today. Wicks O! forget about It. You ought to take things philosophically. Hicks I do. That's ens- enough, but It's hsrd to part with things philosophically. Philadelphia Catholic Standard. "That widow'll make a fool of him if he doesn't watch out." "No. I have It on very good authority that she Intends to marry him." "That's what I mean." Houston Post. "Is your husband up yet?" asked the early morning caller. "I guest he Is," replied the stern looking woman. "I'd like to say a few words to him." "I'd like to say more than a few. ll hasn't come home yet." Philadelphia Press. Customer Is the boss In? Clerk (absently) No but we have some thing Just aa good. San Kranciaco Call. When a man can't find his shears or his pocket knife, or his other hat, or his slip pers, or his fountain pen, he can usually flnd fault, to beat the band. SomervUlu Journal. THEIR Q1EGR TARGETS. Pittsburg Chronicle. The same old tales are coming In From scenes of reckless gunning, Where hunters wildly bang away. Though many risks they're running. The same mistakes are being made, Displaying lack of reason, As those that have been causing grief In every hunting season. 'TIs bad enough when horses, cows And mules and pigs are stopping The leaden pellets from the guns. And In their tracks are dropping; But worse, by far. Is blundering That brings about the aiming At human targets In the woods And ruthelssly Is maiming. A bunch of whiskers on a chin , Is by some gunner spotted; "A squirrel!" he exclaims, and fires, And there's a face shot -dotted. Some fellow's hst protrudes above The brush where he Is walking; "A pheasant," is the gunner's thought And there's result that's shocking. Some unsuspecting paser-by His leg or arm displaying, And as a rabbit he's assailed By some one bent on slaying. 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